Guest Speaker:
Dr Ian Hoskins
when Dr Ian Hoskins presents...
Our guest speaker will be award-winning author and professional historian, Dr Ian Hoskins.
In his most recent book, Australia and the Pacific: a History, Ian examines a timely subject – our place in the Pacific and our relations with the myriad Pacific island nations, as well as those with larger players – from our ties with Papua New Guinea and New Zealand to our complex connections with China, Japan and the United States.
This revealing, sweeping narrative history begins with the shifting of the continents to the coming of the first Australians and, thousands of years later, the Europeans who dispossessed them.
About Ian Hoskins
Ian has worked as an academic historian, a curator and a professional historian in Sydney for more than 30 years. He researches and writes when he is not working as the North Sydney Historian, where he researches and interprets the local area.
Ian is passionate about history (both local and broad) and landscapes (both cultural and natural) along with the architecture, modifications and plantings that make up those places — and the literature and artwork created to represent them.
As always, please keep an eye on our website in case of any last-minute changes.
The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).
It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.
For a map and parking information, see our Contact page.
